SWAT members arrested Loal Ross King, 40, on charges of forgery by passing and evading arrest/detention in a motor vehicle about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday at a motel in the 4100 block of Canyon Drive. Both charges are state jail felonies punishable by no more than two years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Just after 5 p.m. Tuesday, officers were sent to the Amarillo National Bank branch at 4501 S. Bell St. to investigate a reported forgery in progress, police said.

The first officer approached the male driver and asked him to step out of the car. The driver refused and eventually maneuvered his vehicle out of the drive-up teller lines and sped away, police said. Officers pursued the vehicle for a short time and the chase was called off because of traffic conditions, police said.

While officers were checking a residential area where the suspect possibly lived, an officer located the forgery suspect and another short pursuit ensued, police said.

The second pursuit also was called off, police said.

King also was wanted on bond surrender warrants with the original charge of assault by strangulation and escape out of Randall County.